Celebrating their 35th anniversary with a new album crammed with incredible melodic cuts and Hard Rocking numbers, the self-produced ‘Don’t Let Up’ released on Friday 24th March is the culmination of Night Ranger’s work to date and has everything that their many fans could wish for. With more than 17 million albums sold worldwide and over 3,000 live shows performed, they are a group that truly epitomise the sound of the 80’s while simultaneously transcending it. The years subsequent to their 1996 reunion have seen Night Ranger (Vid Of The Day) - consisting of Jack Blades (bass, vocals), Kelly Keagy (drums, vocals), Brad Gillis (lead & rhythm guitars), Eric Levy (keyboards) and Keri Kelli (lead & rhythm guitars) - bring their guitar heavy, melodic brand of Hard Rock into the 21st century with unparalleled talent, energy and creativity.

Norwegian Rockers Triosphere and Swedish Power Metal merchants Thunderstone are both returning to the UK this month playing 10 shows across the UK and Ireland, in support of Rockers Sonata Arctica. On Friday 17th March Triosphere will open on the first four shows before Thunderstone take over the main support slot for the rest of the dates from Wednesday 22nd March. Triosphere’s last AFM album 'The Heart Of The Matter' was released in November 2014 and the band played 70,000 Tons Of Metal the following year, whilst Thunderstone’s last album 'Apocalypse Again' was released in April 2016, and was accompanied by a short UK tour with friends Dakesis soon after.

The WRC are off to see Bad Touch at London's Borderline on Saturday 8th April and on today's Route 66 Track Of The Day, vocalist Stevie Westwood chats to host Rory Auskerry about the band’s upcoming ‘Roadstars’ tour. There’s also new music from Samantha Fish, Julian Sas, Pretty Reckless, Paul Rose and Gun plus classic Rock gold from AC/DC, Judas Priest, Queen, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Dire Straits.

Amsterdam based Metal band The Charm The Fury are gearing up to release their sophomore album, 'The Sick, Dumb & Happy'. The album will be released on Friday 17th March via Nuclear Blast (worldwide) and Arising Empire (Europe). The Charm The Fury have matured since their debut. With several of Europe's biggest festivals under their belt, they have transformed their sound into a startling slab of ultra-modern but utterly distinctive Metal that shrewdly and honestly redefines what they are all about. Driven by a collective distaste for the state of the world in the 21st century, the band, consisting of Caroline Westendorp - vocals, Mathijs Tieken - drums, Rolf Perdok - guitars, Martijn Slegtenhorst - guitars and Lucas Arnoldussen - bass, recorded an angry album underpinned by ferocious intelligence and a heartfelt desire to wake people out of their digital stupors!

This week's 2016 WRC Award winning Rock On The Ridge Track Of The Day includes Smithradio, Asphalt Horsemen, Voodoo Hill, Black Stone Cherry, Alter Bridge, Failure Anthem, The Broken Ravens, Art Of Anarchy, Wicked Tongues, Bruce Kulick, Budgie, Scorpion Child (pictured), Blue Helix, Rival Sons, Rainbreakers, The Brew, Inglorious, The Answer, Voodoo Six, Empyre, Bedwyr Morgan and on their introducing stage Motion Device!

Walter Trout (Vid Of The Day) is on fire right now and at the peak of his game following the release of two recent firecrackers of albums; ‘Alive in Amsterdam’ (2016) and ‘Battle Scars’ (2015) - both reached the top of the Blues Charts and has rejuvenated one of the most formidable Bluesmen of our time. After a blistering performance at Ramblin' Man Fair (pictured), BluesFest and his October tour last year, Walter is back in the UK , ‘Alive’ with the sound of a man resurrected - calling at; Whitely Bay, Glasgow, Sheffield, Lincoln, Warrington, Norwich and Leamingon. Walter will be joined on the tour by The Trout Brothers Band; his sons Jonathan and Mike along with honorary brother Adam!

UK rock trio RavenEye (Vid Of The Day) have been invited to tour Europe as Special Guests of Kiss, one of Rock’s most notorious and influential bands. They have also been added as Special Guests on the Hellyeah UK tour in April. The band also recently announced shows at Download festivals in Spain and France, as well as Bulgaria’s Plovdiv Festival, with more to follow soon. Since releasing their wildly successful EP, ‘Breaking Out’, and debut album ‘NOVA', RavenEye has toured globally, supporting Slash, Deep Purple, The Darkness​ and Halestorm amongst others. The band has headlined their own tours through Europe and America as well as performing at major international rock festivals - their incendiary live shows have captivated crowds and put them on the map as a ‘must see live’ band. When RavenEye formed two years ago with Oli Brown on vocals and guitar, Aaron Spiers on bass, synth and vocals and Adam Breeze on drums - the then 25 year old singer and multi-award winning guitarist Brown​, had already released four solo albums and toured the world for 10 years with legends such as Jeff Beck​, Buddy Guy​, Johnny Winter​ and Joe Satriani​.

NYHC legends Madball have announced a UK tour for this Summer starting on Sunday 25th June at London's Underworld in Camden and ending at Birmingham's Mama Roux on Thursday 29th June. Madball have earnt their stripes as one of the true veterans of the hardcore scene, with a career that's spanned more than a quarter of a decade so far. Madball are currently working on their ninth studio album - the veterans last CD 'Hardcore Lives' being released in 2014.

Today's Black On Blues Track Of The Day includes music from Professor Louie And The Crowmatix, Vin Mott, JW Jones, Guy Verlinde and Delta Moon.

Today's Blues On The Marsh Track Of The Day, orginally broadcast on Friday night, includes Tiny Legs Tim, Calvin Frazier, Eddie Bo and Chris Barber, Paul Lamb and the Kingsnakes, Catfish (pictured) and more.

New Forest Tribal-Pop quartet Natives have announced an extensive 17-date UK headline tour running throughout May and June this year. The tour starts at the Bristol’s Louisiana on Tuesday 9th May and finishes at The Winchester, Bournemouth on Saturday 17th June. The band will call at major cities across the UK and headline The Camden Assembly, London on Friday 15th June. The announcement follows the band’s recent tour with Busted, which saw Natives play the biggest shows of their career and achieve high profile press support from the Evening Standard, Metro and more. The band are gearing up to release their second album later this year through LAB Records/The Santi Collective. The recent string of highly acclaimed single releases, including ‘Warpaint’, ‘Passion’, ‘Stop The Rain’ and ‘Chasing Lions’, give a taste of the ambitious record, which explores the fictional story of a curious character who embarks on a journey into an unknown world. The band have also been announced to play the Common People Festival, Southampton on Sunday 28th May.

'Saint Of The Lost Souls”' is House Of Lords’ tenth studio album due to be released on Friday 24th March, following up the highly successful “'Indestructible”'. Recorded and produced by the band’s singer and mastermind James Christian, this collection of songs has an incredible flow of up-tempo and mid-tempo rockers mixed with power ballads, which lean a bit more toward keyboards this time around, but without compromising the band's trademark sound which is based around Jimi Bell’'s guitar. The band has toured relentlessly in Europe and the States in support of their releases and have now become a true staple of the Hard Rock scene on both continents. Look out for House of Lords (Vid Of The Day) on tour in the spring of 2017 with Christian, Bell, Chris Tristram on bass and BJ Zampa on drums!